Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-06
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News

5UUO. AID O'CLOCK the same evening heavy
thunder storm. accompa by wind with
a velocity OF So miles an hour, passed over
the city hooding streets and doing great
damage to trees, fences and small buildings
Telegraph wires were Frustrated and trains
on several roads delayed. The signal SER
month has been the hottestin fifteen years,
and that more rain has fallen than in any
previous July for many years
A special from Paducah, KY, says that
just preceding the earthquake Monday
night, a farm of 300 acres, planted in corn
and tobacco, sank from four to six feet, and
that the basin began at once to fill with
water. There were two colored families
living on the place who did not feel the
settling OF the earth, but we're awakened
by water pouring in on the floor of their
cabins. They got on to high ground safely.
Irigg county is about sixty five miles from
the ssunken lands, = that went down sixty
to seventy feet during the New Madrid
convulsion about sixty years ago.
Late dispatches from British Columbia
state that news from the northern salmon
fisheries is encouraging. The Skeena river
pack will be the heaviest known. Fifty-two
thousand + Gus 2 cases are already packed. The
Astoria, Ore, states that this season there
is shortage of between $4,000 and $4,000
cases. The pack this year is estimated at
600, and possibly 100000. Last season a
number of vessels were loaded with salmon.
Only one has received cargo so far this
season.
Joseph Rich, farmer, aged 30, drove on to
a railroad crossing near Richmond, Ind, on
the Goth, after he had heard the whistle Of
the engine, and was struck by the train
going 80 miles an hour; Rich, his baby and
YnO hor low ~,
escaped alive. The horses were killed. The
spectacle was horrible, as Rich was cut in
twain, and had his head caved in. His baby
was ground to pulp, and Mrs. Newcomb
had oneleg torn off and her arms, body and
head mangled.
James McConlay, Of Hastings, Nebraska,
a day or two since the buried body Of his
only son Hugh, who, it was reported, had
been killed in the st. Thomas, Ont, accident
two weeks ago. The body was followed to
the grave by the Borrowing relatives. Friday
to see his son walk into the house alive and
well, and then the discovery was made that
the body shipped and mourned over and
buried, was that of a young Canadian.
At a railroad crossing near Lakeside,
Mich, train struck wagon containing
Miss Hattie Shaver, Miss Hattie REYNOLDS,
sLottie Shaver, Fred Hatch and Charles
Wilbeck and killed the first two. Lottie
Shaver, little girl, cannot live. The
ladies were carried 113 feet and thrown
down an embankment The mon were not
seriously hurt The train gave the usual
signal, but Wilbeck drove across the track
when the train was in sight.
The last business day of July was a
critical one in Wall Street, and stocks
touched lower prices than have been
known since the break after the rise in
June. Two failures occurred. Minneapolis
from 50 to AZ, Vanderbilt's an average
decline of 3 per cent. just before the close
OF the day there was a slight recovery and
the market was less unsettled.
Secretary Bayard has received dispatch
from Consul General Phelan at Halifax,
saying that he is investigating the recent
seizure Of American vessels in Canadian
waters, and that he has instructed the
consul at Charlottetown to take measure
ments of the sea at the points where the
seizures were made, so as to establish the
exact distance from above.
At 6 p. m. on the Goth, tornado struck
David City, Nebraska, demolishing a num-
Der of buildings, including the Union Pa
cific and Burlington e Missouri depots,
school house, foundry, two elevators, and
brick hotel. One man was killed and quite
number injured. At w. G. T. U. lawn
wind and carried short distances, but none
much hurt.
Insurance men in the east are discussing
with anxiety the alarming increase of fire
losses, which, throughout the country for
the last two months have been at the rate
OF Sl0O, O0O, 600 a year, four or five times the
normal ratio. One insurance agent said
'slf this thing keeps up we are going to stop,
that's all; we must have a let up or perish"
Thursday afternoon, Katie Callahan,
Delah M. Walsh, Matte Heating, Maggie
Tooney and Lucy Callahan, aged from
the Concord river at North Bellerica, Mass.
The current carried them beyond their
depth and the first four were drowned.
The July rains produced the most ex-
tensive freshet at Augusta Ca, known in
% years The Savannah registered 33 feet
6 inches on the 30th, and the corn and
cotton in the Savannah Valley we're sub
merged and destroyed; the Georgia and
other railroads suffered great damage.
Charles H. Reed, the former Chicago law
yer who assisted in the defense of President
Garfeld's assassin, attempted suicide about
pa Sioch SATURDAY morning py Jumping
into the river off Jersey City ferry boat.
he was rescued and taken to the insane
ward of the New York jail.
A kalamazoo, Mich, dispatch says: Not
since 1858 has this section suffered SO terri
bly, from drouth as this season. Corn and
potatoes are practically ruined Many
farmers are cutting up the former, and fires
have commenced their devastating work
There we're several fatal cases of sun
stroke at New York City, July 81, among
them, that of Oscar S. SAWYER, the well
known newspaper correspondent. Nineteen
persons died without attendance, the larg.
est number in one days record.
The Columbian bank of Philadelphia
assigned on the Both, owing to carrying too
heavy load for stock operators
August 1st free postal delivery began at
Saltwater, Mimi, Oskloosa, Iowa, and Hur.
on, Dakota.
The steamer Star of Scotia was wrecked
off the Falkland islands and eight lives lost.
There were eight deaths from sun-stroke
at Philadelphia, Sunday, July 81
Nashville, st. Louis and Evansville re
port slight shocks of earthquake.
The public debt reduction for July was
s., S44 1874.
Crimes.
a crazed mother at Adamsville, Ohio,
poisoned her three children using Paris green
for the purpose
DR.. st. John and DR.. Dell have been
arrested at Chicago for assisting ex-Warden
McGarigle to escape.
Ed Mcdonald, convicted at Chicago with